by Chris Provolt | Feb 17, 2016 | Databases
Securing your data is very important and database encryption is just part of that landscape. Taking advantage SQL Server database encryption can be a daunting task but once it is configured it is also important to monitor it. This query is intended to allow the...
by Chris Provolt | Feb 17, 2016 | Databases
SSMS Shortcut is what we are going to be learning about in this blog post. When writing T-SQL it can be quite distracting to go look up a table definition or information on a database object. Enter the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) shortcut key ALT + F1....
by Chris Provolt | Feb 17, 2016 | Databases
Abstract Upgrading or migrating your SQL Server can seem like a very daunting task. And it certainly can be especially when we start to look at hardware requirements, size and space needs, time constraints, and the numerous impacts to the the users and applications...
by Chris Provolt | Oct 14, 2015 | Data Management, Databases
Keeping track of SQL Server Jobs is an important part of maintaining a database proactively. The below script pulls a quick list of all jobs, completion status, and date the job ran. Taking this a step further one could have the SQL Server email them a copy of SQL...
by Chris Provolt | May 15, 2015 | Data Management, Databases
During routine integrity checks one of our Virtual-DBA customers encountered an error 17053 was encountered causing the job performing these tasks to fail. Investigating the problem further this information was also included with the error in the SQL Error Log:...
by Chris Provolt | Feb 11, 2015 | Data Management, Databases
The sys.database_role_members view contains two columns one for the role id and one for the member id creating a relationship between the role and the user. When we join this data to the sys.database_principals view we can retrieve the friendly name of the role and...
